Ezra Jack Keats

Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.

Keats begins abruptly with Louie, lonely in a drab new home, unaccountably constructing a peepshow city in a shoebox. But this combination of collage and childlike drawing does make an enticing, dreamlike background for Louie's imagined trip back to the old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat, " while...

An illustrated version of the Christmas carol about the procession to Bethlehem and the offer of a poor boy to play his drum for the Christ Child. Music for the song appears in the back of the book.

A puppy joins a litter of kittens in their fun and games for one day.

Las aventuras de un muchachito en la ciudad cuando hace mucha nieve. The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

Susie and Roberto's puppet show is temporarily interrupted when Louis becomes fascinated by one of the puppets.

When the hat Jennie receives from her aunt is not as fancy as she had hoped, her bird friends decorate it for her.

An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

A collection of ten books by the Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator, with a brief biography and short essays by colleagues--including Jerry Pinkney and Eric Carle--who have been influenced by his work.